Cheers: Season 9
Season 9 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Cheers Season 8.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 9 Progress Shield
Love Is a Really, Really, Perfectly Okay Thing
Sep 20, 1990 · 23 min
In the afterglow of their intimate encounter, Rebecca becomes determined to deny that it ever happened, to the gang at the bar, to Robin and to herself.
Cheers Fouls Out
Sep 27, 1990 · 23 min
Sam tries to beat Gary at his own game in a grudge basketball game by recruiting Boston Celtics' star Kevin McHale as a substitute bartender at Cheers.
Rebecca Redux
Oct 4, 1990 · 22 min
Sam hires a new bar manager that everyone seems to like, then learns how low Rebecca has sunk in her pursuit of new employment.
Where Nobody Knows Your Name
Oct 11, 1990 · 23 min
Rebecca is secretly very upset when one of Robin's previous lovers goes public claiming to be his current affair.
Ma Always Liked You Best
Oct 18, 1990 · 22 min
Cliff gets very hurt and upset when his mother decides that Woody is the son she never had, and Norm gets caught in a window.
Grease
Oct 25, 1990 · 23 min
Norm nearly has a cow when he hears that the Hungry Heifer is closing down, and mounts an all-out campaign to keep it going, while Rebecca frets over seeing Robin as he works in th
Breaking In Is Hard to Do
Nov 1, 1990 · 24 min
Lilith and Frasier try to cope with the fact that their son needs more care from them while Rebecca and Carla try to figure out how Rebecca can pay Robin a conjugal visit in jail.
Bad Neighbor Sam
Nov 15, 1990 · 23 min
Sam initiates a feud with the new owner of Melville's, the restaurant upstairs when snobbish restaurateur John Hill buys the building.
Veggie-Boyd
Nov 22, 1990 · 23 min
Woody gets a big break when he's cast in a commercial for a new vegetable drink but Cliff just feels broken when the new trivia napkins upstage him.
Norm and Cliff's Excellent Adventure
Dec 6, 1990 · 24 min
Woody gets hooked on a home television-shopping channel while Norm and Cliff start a fight between Sam and Frasier.
Woody Interruptus
Dec 13, 1990 · 24 min
Kelly returns from Europe with a new French boyfriend and Cliff decides to have his head cryogenically frozen before he dies.
Honor Thy Mother
Jan 3, 1991 · 24 min
Carla's formidable mother demands on her deathbed that Carla name one of her children "Benito Mussolini."
Achilles Hill
Jan 10, 1991 · 24 min
Sam decides to settle his feud with John Hill by dating the man's daughter and Carla fears that the foosball table is possessed.
The Days of Wine and Neuroses (1)
Jan 24, 1991 · 24 min
Rebecca parties hearty to hide her second thoughts after Robin finally pops the question and Frasier develops a passion for the new sing-along machine.
Wedding Bell Blues (2)
Jan 31, 1991 · 24 min
Rebecca awakens on her wedding morning raring to go, and seems determined to ignore Sam's attempts to remind her of her doubts, and Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield upstages Frasie
I'm Getting My Act Together and Sticking It in Your Face
Feb 7, 1991 · 24 min
Rebecca has trouble accepting the fact that she cancelled her wedding with Robin and Frasier translates Dickens' classic prose into Boston vernacular.
Sam Time Next Year
Feb 14, 1991 · 24 min
On Valentine's Day, Sam winds up laid out due to back trouble on the 20th anniversary of his annual tryst with Lauren.
Crash of the Titans
Feb 21, 1991 · 23 min
Rebecca decides on a new goal in life and begins by flattering John Hill in an effort to get his lease for the bar.
It's a Wonderful Wife
Feb 28, 1991 · 23 min
Norm develops a rich paranoia and decides to look for another bar when wife Vera gets a job upstairs at Melville's, and Lilith helps the gang celebrate Frasier's birthday.
Cheers Has Chili
Mar 14, 1991 · 24 min
Rebecca wants to serve Woody's chili in the poolroom despite Sam's heartfelt objections.
Carla Loves Clavin
Mar 21, 1991 · 24 min
Carla faces the hardest task of her life when she tries to be nice to Cliff after learning he's one of the judges for the Miss Boston Barmaid competition.
Pitch It Again, Sam
Mar 28, 1991 · 23 min
Sam's old baseball rival shows up to goad Sam into a final round on the mound, but Sam isn't too sure he wants to go.
Rat Girl
Apr 4, 1991 · 23 min
Lilith grieves over the death of her favorite lab rat while bar support Paul proves an unlikely target for a sexy seduction.
Home Malone
Apr 25, 1991 · 23 min
Sam enters a whole new world when he babysits for Frasier and Lilith, and Woody worries about Kelly when she goes to work at Cheers as part of a school project.
Uncle Sam Wants You
May 2, 1991 · 23 min
When Sam finds it difficult to back away from Frasier's son, he decides to have one of his own-if only he can find the right mommy.